I went for an interview for House Committee selections today! Actually I'd already applied some time ago but the emails only came in about 3 days ago. Telling a whole bunch of us that we would be interviewed. I have no idea how they picked me. Suppose it was because I managed to not doodle on the paper. Or because I used to chat with them before house practice about anime and the like.
So I was applying for Level Coordinator, Creative Arts (CAD) and Administrator. Because I'm kind of OCD with thanks to influence from my sisters and also artistic thanks to my sisters.
Need to thank her for introducing anime to my life at 5 years old.
So before the interview (at 3.20 or so) I spent my time playing with a... Cello? Double Bass? I forgot. That belonged to a newly-found acquaintance next door. Happily, I play the violin so it was pretty simple except for where to place my fingers and the fact I couldn't see the strings. And we spent a lot of time chatting and stuff since they were also running for House Committee.
(Oh, and I'm in Tarbet, or the Red House. The cello/double bass girl and my ex-friends are in Richardson, the Blue House. I also have a friend in Buckle, the Green House, but I don't think she ran...)
When it was reaching my turn I went there and found the girl right before me (Rachel) camping out there with a Year 3 who was apparently the CAD but I'd never seen her before. Which is alarming since I can remember all of the House Committee by at least face and most of them by name. I even know what they like or where they live for some, like Li Yin likes anime and Min Yan lives in Joo Koon and has an elder sister only one year older.
The door opened to let out Carla, my classmate, so I yelled, "Hi Carla!" and saw Pauline (now the house captain) inside so I waved to her but the door slammed just as she turned her head towards me. How melancholic.
(Shockingly, Rachel went in. Then after a while we heard the sound of "These days are all~ Happy and free~" so we looked in through the small window. We saw her dancing and shuffling for the House Committee. The moment she came out, Carla and her began their dancing spree.)
So it was my turn and I waved to Li Yin who brought me in. The moment I came in the first person I recognized easily was Pauline so I said, "Hi Pauline."
"Ha, she only greeted me."
"Shut up Pauline."
And then they asked a lot of questions and I just acted as normal as I could and imitated the me that they'd always known because I figured that me was the kind of girl they would want. I used a lot of them as examples for my points a lot of times, though I waved at the recording camera before doing anything. Su Yun has a red iPhone to record apparently.
I messed up though, because I put Level Coordinator before CAD though I realized afterwards CAD would have suited me ten times better. But at that time I thought Level Coordinator would suit me because it'd expose me to a large band of people and I'd get to do admin work.
They went through my rushed together art portfolio (which actually had the original copies and even a random Cendrillon fan picture I drew in class that very day, the horror!) and were like, "Did you do this??" when they saw the digital art of Shime that I was working on. They said they'd return it and I hope they do, because I do so want my original arts and I want back the MY-UK-HK picture of them fighting for Singapore's affection.
Yes, I've added Hong Kong to the MYUK love rivals thing. Because I figured one European, one Asian and one Malay Peninsula would be better. Plus Hong Kong and Singapore used to trade even before England colonized both of them anyway.
Anyway, they were like, " Why didn't you put CAD first then??" and I threw out the first answer I could think of. Then the interview was pretty much over. Oh yeah...
Pauline: Do you have any questions?
Me: ...
Me: Yeah... What's her name again? -points-
Girl (Kelly apparently): ...
Vanessa: That's Kelly.
Me: Oh yeahh.
And they asked me to draw a shirt design involving a cow in ten minutes. So I drew one shirt with a cow nad there were captions saying, "I am Cow/Hear me MOO". Author notes below said, "LI YIN REMEMBER THIS SOOOONG?"
Another one was a rap song design.
[Start transcript]
I can be found at
Marche's [A/n: Spelt wrongly, I spelt Mache in the design]
-Picture of some Marche logo-
And I'm cool and red over
There
-picture of red colour-
And I'm so cow-ly red that I'm from
Tarbet <3
[End transcript]
Also put author notes, "I <3 Marche! They have cows there but they're taller than me though."
And last one was rushed out because I knew Mengge was coming out soon (I'd heard some cheering inside from the House Comm but didn't dare check why they were cheering) and I decided to just make one more. A girl cosplaying as a cow in a tophat and a sleeveless and strapless one piece dress down to right above her knees. Caption: "Cow cosplay anyone?"
Heh.
That pretty much sums it up, other than how I spent 1 hour or more talking to Zhi Rui, the girl with the cello/ double bass. She apparently drew a genie with a triangle head.
(Tarbet's mascot is a cow; Richardson's is a genie. That's why.)
And other than all the Facebook comments of course.
Sayon.
